Sewerage system.



R. l. JONES. SEWERAGE SYSTEM. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14.1916.

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Application filed September 14, 1916. Serial No. 120,123.

To all whomz't may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD I. JONES, a

vcitizen of the United States, residing atTopeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sewerage Systems, of which the following is a specification, full, clear, and exact within `the meaning ofthe patent statutes.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in sewerage systems, and has for its object the provision of novel mechanism for the reception and drainage of waste water from houses, barns, and the like, to be utilized to flush water-closet bowls.` In other words, .the idea compre hcnded by my invention is the utilization of waste water from houses, barns,A etc., for the economical flushing or water-closets, the supply of such ywater to the closet beingy from a storage reservoir, which, in turn, is supplied, by gravity, as from a catch-basin, into which rain water, or wastewater from a kitchen sink, may iow, the flow oi' Water to the closet-bowl being controlled bv an automaticallyv opening and closing valve, which, also, may be manually opened.

Subsidiary objects of improvement in structural parts, going to make up the ultimateperfectionof the entire device, will appear asthespecication proceeds and the nature of the invention more fully appears.`

lith these objects in view, the invention comprehends the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts of a drainage and sewerage system, as will be fully described in the specification, emphasized in the claim, and illustrated in the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of my specifications, and in which like reference-characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, I have illustrated a form of apparatus capable of carrying out the underlying principles of the invention. The several iigures of the drawing may be briefly described as follows:

Figure 1 is a .view in side elevation, partly in section, of my apparatus, and

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail view of the storage reservoir and of the float contained therewithin.

Referring, now, in detail to the ,draw-ing:

l designates a vertical sewerage pipe sunk linto the ground A, the top of the pipe projecting suitably above the ground, and having the usual water-closet seat 2 and cover 3 to close the opening 4 in the seat. The bottom of the pipe l may communicate with an underlying, verticallyealined closet-bowl 5 communicating, in turn, with a sewer pipe 6, having awater-seal or trap 7, leading the waste and water to the sewer or l'inal outlet.

In parallelism and, by preference, in proximity with the pipel is a vertical stand pipe '8, also suitably projecting above the ground A, and having its lower end disposed, preferably, near the top ofthe closetbowl 5.

Thelower end oi the stand-pipe 8 is preferably seated in a base member, in this instance a block 9, desirably of Portland cement, having, in its top, a hemispherical socket 10, constituting a valve-seat. mi inclined port l1 leads from the bottom of the valve-seat through the block 9, and, com-` municating with the lower end of said port and with said closet bowl, is an inclined pipe l2. Adapted to close passage through the port l1 isa valve 13, preferably, as shown, a ball-valve having a vertical valve-stem 14 extending through the topof the stand-pipe 8, and' having its eXteriorly-.projeoting end suitably articulated with a vertical link 15 pivotally connected, at its upper end, with' a lever 16 fulcrumed, as at 17, to a suitable support 18, the other end oi' said lever bein pivotally connected with a depending pul` rod 19 carrying, at its tree extremity, a handle 20 in convenient reach of a person using the closet.

Mounted for limited vertical movement on the valve-stem 14 is a hollow float 2l, which is, preferably, in the form of a metallic cylinder. advantageously, the float 2l is constructed with an integral tube 22 through its longitudinal center, through which the valve-stem 14 projects.

Suitable means for limiting the range of movement of the float 2l longitudinally of the valve-stem 14 are provided, and, in this instance, comprise two disks 23, 23, coperating with two pins 24 removably disposed in any two of a series of holes 25 in the valve-stem 14. By changing the position of these two pins 24 in the holes 25, so that they are nearer to or farther away from each other, the range of movement of the iloat will be lessened or increased, as the case may be, in an obvious manner. If desired, of course, the disks 2,3, 23 may be omitted, as the pins 24, in themselves, an-

swer the purpose in view,

Communicating with the stand-pipe 8, near the bottom thereof, is an inclined pipe 25, whose upper end communicates with a catch-basin 26, which may have its top level withV the surface of the ground A, or may be disposed above the saine. basin 26 may be disposed in a convenient place to pour waste water therein, or to run roof-water therein, or may connect with kitchen-sinks to receive waste-water therefrom.

In use, it will be seen that the stand-pipe 141 constitutes a storage-reservoir for the waste water, which is supplied through pipe 25, and that, as soon as the float 21 reaches the top pin 24, further movement of the float,'independent of the valve-stein 14, will cease, and the float will operate automatically to lift the valve-stein to unseat the valve 13, permitting water from the reservoir to flow through the port 11 to the pipe 12, and thence to the closetbowl 5, thereby flushing the same. Also, when desired, the valve 13 may be opened, independently of the oat 21, by pulling downward upon the pull-rod 19.

It will be obvious that the utility of my invention resides in the utilization of waste water to Hush closet-bowls, and that the invention is of specialvalue in places where water under pressure is not obtainable, as from a city ivateiinain; but it is also 0bvious that, irrespective of water or not water under pressure may be obtained, my invention is of value and utility, since it presents a very economical manner of use of water, since purely waste water, as rain water from the roof of a dwelling house,

supply the reservoir.

The catc'li barn, or the like, or waste-water fromV kitchen-sinks, or the like, may be used to invention contemplates a novel system for the useful and economical disposition of Awaste water and its drainage, Vto flush watercloset bowls, and avoids freezing.

Having thus fully described niy inven tion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

ln sewerage apparatus, the conibinatiom with. a vertical water-closet pipe adapted to be sunk into the earth or ground, with its top projecting tliereabove, and having a water-closet seat at its top and .a watercloset bowl at its bottoni, of a lvertical standpipe, constituting a water-reservoir, disposed adjacent the water-closet pipe, and also projecting above the ground, a cementblockI in which is seated the lower end of said stand-pipe, said cement-block having a valve-seat in its top and an inclined port leading therefrom to the exterior thereof, an inclined pipe communicating with said port and with said bowl, a valve seatable on said valve-seat and having a valve-'stein pro jecting vertically through said stand-pipe, a float having limited longitudinal movenient on said stem, an `inclined pipe communicating with said stand-pipe near the bottom thereof, and a catch-basin communi cating with said last mentioned inclined pipe at its other end.V v

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature.

RICHARD i. Jones.

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